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Its the same thing.

Versioning and backwards compatibility costs a ton of money and blocks your innovation.

Legacy hell comes often enough also from dependencies you can't get rid of anymore...

People have to realize, that software is not done when written.

Software makes the fabric between everything in our lifes. It brought us tones of innovation; It is one of the biggest enabler, innovation drivers and tool we have. It is one of the complexest and cheapest tools we have.

You know what happens with software which is stoped being worked on?

Very old, unflexible Cobolt Software on Mainframe systems in banking systems. Guess why your bank is so antiinnovation?

Security holes

'Legacy hell'

We just need to do less Software and better Software.

This will happen once and then there will be a test for it.

My automated system will only get more resiliant over time. This is a benefit for the system itself.

Of course when you do it manually, you will learn and gain experience but thats only for YOU. It does not just get transfered to your colleagues and when you are on holiday and shit hits the fan, it will not help.

My biggest reason why i like automatisation so much is: the company becomes less reliant on me.

It is the same mechanism why the industry is getting more computer logic: Machines are complicated and you need to train people. Make it easier for people to 'just use' and you have more people available which you need to train less.

Yeah 'ethical engineers'.

They exists don't get me wrong but you know plenty of engineers don't care or bother with more simple things like recycling, keeping themselfs in shape, working on their own mental health etc. etc.

There are plenty fish in the ocean which do not care or just never thought about the implications.

I had a time in my life where the price of a motherboard mattered. But you can't tell me, that most comments here on HN are from poor students which will not be able to afford a new CPU+Mainboard after 4 years or so.

I have not had this issue to be honest, i just switch both if required. Especially with PCI4 etc. its often enough critical to upgrade after a while and i did sell my old motherboard and cpu combi. That should reduce the 'in my opinion overstated risk' of wasting your old mainboard.

When i read comments here i'm wondering how and why people are either for or against intel?

IF i need to upgrade, i will check the current situation and will buy the best cpu in comparison to my needs and price.

If it means that i need tons of core because of my workload i might choose a threadripper. Do i need to compile often and i know a specific intel cpu will save me ton of time waiting but it costs more? Fine.

Do i wanna play games? lets see what i can get for ~150$ bucks range.

/shrug

What is your rough setup then?

That sounds like a very small setup you run with very limited requirements if you run this successful.

The benefits they are mentioning are theoretical for you and i personally have not worked in a professional env where VPSs and rsync would be enough at all.

I'm not sure if you have seen a proper build and maintained automated e2e lifecycle.

You write code, you push it, 5 Minutes later it is rolling out, tested, with health checks and health metrics.

Your infrastructure itself is keeping itself up to date (nightly image builds, e2e tests etc.)

It just works and runs. It doesn't make the same mistake twice, it doesn't need an expert to be used.

I'm not saying its for everyone! Put three/four VMs on AWS, add a managed database and you are good to go with your ansible. Use a Jira plugin to create reaccuring Tickets for doing your maintenance and that should work fine.

Nonethless, based on your 'random list of things' it does sound like you are not doing it right.

There is something very wrong if you really think its critical for you to be able to 'hot fix' aka playing hero by jumping on your vms and hacking around. IF you only one single server for your production env. there is no risk of forgetting a server to patch but there is still the issue of forgetting to backport it (which is probably the wrong term if you don't hotfix your release branch)

Most mistakes i do, are mistakes i do because i was able to do them.

And that might sound unfortunate but there is a feeling of trust for your setup. At least i get that feeling and i get that through automatisation. Knowing and seeing the deployprocess just working day in day out. Knowing that my monitoring and alerting is setup properly, knowing that the systems keep themselfs up to date, knowing there are proper tests in place.

I stoped 2 webshops which basically sell expensive stuff 20% off by wire transfer (bank transfer?!) which then never send the goods of course!

I did the following:

- I found out where it was hosted and send them an email explaining them why and how that shop is a scam

- I found out where they hosted the domain and wrote the registrar an abuse email

- I wrote an email to the banks where the bank accounts where active

The scammer had a webchat module active and he/she did wrote back to me, nothing came out through that, nonetheless:

next day, both webshops were gone due to being taken offline from the hosters.

I do believe, that they do have a chance because literaly no one cares. I have seen mentioning of one of those two shops older then 6 month. I pissed at them with very little effort in a very short time.

I do hope i helped out.

I got slight issues with my trackpad. I have not figured out a proper pattern though.

It is still rare.

I'm not sure what your background is but your analysis sounds quite strong opiniated.

There are examples in law that 'work' can be protected; Just because you don't have the copyright doesn't mean that someone else is just allowed to use your work results.

Apparently in this specific case its not protected.

Just because someone says 'you will get RST when you do x' doesn't mean its true.

I'm touch typing now for over 18 years, quite fast, basically started with touch typing and i don't have issues.

There are plenty of alternative keyboards out there which will allow you to keep touch typing = fast and more ergonomic.

Alone the fact, that you need to look down to find your keys is weird to me. How do you correct your text while typing? Looking up and down all the time?

Highly depends on the skill level and experience of your overall team.

There are plenty of people writing code in small companies who just never seen or heard it or never experienced the advantage of doing it good/better.

They get a task to do and thats what they gonna do.

There are also Teams in the wild where people get pushed to over a longer time of period because people gave up on them but you don't wanna be the bad guy firing them and there is still an it expert shortage and you might find something new for them to do, you know, people where you are wondering how they earn a paycheck.

And i have seen plenty of experts who just don't have the experience to see certain issues.

Good example are things like: Mandatory Code review (for shared ownership, for quality), taking metrics serious (yes messure what you do), proper CI/CD (no do not skip breaking unit tests...) etc.

I believe, one of my most critical skill for companies is making sure those things are in place or become good. It feels weird to be honest, that those things are so critical and still are not lived as you would assume, or at least i do.

I'm not a big fan of people just doing what the ticket states.

Quality doesn't start when a customer comes up with a simple fix/enhancement. Quality comes from people with experience who knows exactly what needs to be done even if it is not stated in a Ticket.

- Security - Maintainability - Usability - Clarity - Performance

You are the expert, NOT your PO. Your PO tells you what he/she needs, you tell them what you HAVE to do.

And personally, i have never heard anyone complaining that someone else did a better job on a ticket than the ticket stated.

yes and i'm always looking at HN Entries which show the next file upload etc. and think 'puh holy shit they are fearless' because thats why i'm not building something like this.

I would create a company to have legal seperation for my private assets, i would use a ton of mechnism upfront to make sure i do my best to not support childporn and stuff and when i have analyzed how much work the proper way is, i will just stop thinking about it :)

I do see my comment in context of using SQL for your Queries while your main focus as a Developer (like for java etc.) is not writing SQLs as your main priority.

Also it does state 'we can do better than sql' and i do have a certain amount of practical experience to state my personal opinion that i do not think that their approach is actually better than sql.

They did show quite avg examples; Examples which are leading me to assume certain points like where they would like to replace sql.

I'm not doing SQL every day but i have rarely any issues with it.

Do we really need to do better than SQL? I don't think so and i also don't think that the chosen new syntax is better.

At the end of the day, most critical is not the language but understanding how it works to optimize indezes etc. If you are only able to write simple SQL because you are not good in SQL/Databases, you will not optimize your Database independently from the language.

If you are good in SQL/Databases, you (or at least i) do not care about syntax details; You just look it up, and get acquainted to your specific underlying Database.

I'm struggling today as well with this shit:

I just wanna write a few small lines of a shell script which downloads stuff;

It is very very stupid through what loops you hvae to jump to do this with curl and bash script in a good way including readability and error handling.

Is a perl script really better?

Perl 5,6 and 7 did not make it very sane to me, managing and installing and working with perl is also less trivial then having a shell like bash, sh or dash available to you.

Something inbetween bash and go is missing, i like the approach of crush. I think thats the biggest misstake happening in bash: playing around with strings and auto expansion and substition etc. Its weird, its error prone, it doesn't have a proper clean well defined ecosysem.

I'm not sure if i missed it but you did mention physical keyboard;

Without this physical keyboard, you have phones like https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/#overview

Also there are plenty of non google service based android phones and alternatives.

You can also use Linux on most Android Phones as well.

A Pi Zero or a Pi in general is very very far away from what a Android based Phone does and can do. Alone for Security.

What is your thought why you would assume a lot of people could get beind this setup? I do like the project, its nice though but for me probably for different reasons then for you.

I assume so;

I would not replace my proper well working phone with a makeshift device like this at all.

And there are plenty of options out there already; No need to wait for this setup.

I would love to hear from you in 1-3 years again to see how your journey continues;

Its always interesting to see that a lot of people see things different :)

Sure it will but if you earn already 200k a year, your potential includes an increase over the next 5 years;

And sure thats probably slightly easy calculated but personally for me, living 5 years very frugual and then buying a house and then doing another 5 years and then stop working, is very reasonable when you have a salary like that.

The first 5 Years might mean saving a lot, but then you own a house. Payed, mortgage free; Very low base costs.

Depending on how big that house is, you are now able to invest even more longterm: Solar Power for example to keep your utility costs very low.

I'm curious and would like to understand it a little bit better:

You had a well paying job which would allowed you, in only 5-10 years to basically buy a house for half a million and then retire with the other half million.

What motivated you to build an Online Service?

What are your thoughts on your competitors? Like i do like your product from a first view perspective, butwhen i google 'online video editor' i do find a lot of alternative products.

Are there any long term plans when you would say you made it or where you would pull the plug?

I like everything of it besides the final composition;

I have no idea whats going on when i just glance over and its not very clear what this big thing on the left side is if you don't study it in detail;

Whatever you do, make sure to get the basics right:

- Good UI - Fast UI - Good performance and if this is not possible, keep the UI responsive and give Feedback to the user

I think the art is in actually finding yin/yang.

At the end you oscillate in-between.

I don't think you can really get away from it.

If you can work with it, work with it.

Normally things do get better and even if its small, it accumulates.

Display resolution Display colors, refreshrate Battery lifetime Weight (x220 is much heavier then my x390) Thickness Techstandards like newer/better/faster wifi USB-C (I love! charging my laptop with the same cable as my switch and my smartphone. Makes travel easier etc.)

If you are happy with it, feel free to keep using it, but i don't get why it is a possitive thing to not update/upgrade anything at all.

Sry i'm a software engineer, i like hardware and i don't have any issue upgrading my laptop to be able to just watch a youtube video on my browser without any manual hardware optimized workaround.

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"I have a completly outdated system with internet connectivity because i'm not using what an average user is doing at all and now i'm writing an article about it"

I have upgraded from a X220 to a X390 for a single reason: YouTube Videos, which i like to watch on my laptop, started to put the x220 under high load.

I'm just not writing an Article about it.

Ah and one generic reason for not having something with is 20 years old: You do wanna have security updates.